Chapter 31 - 31- Wizarding Economics and blacksmithing

Harry's pov

It was the first Saturday of October, and Harry was on his way to Gringots.

He left through the vanishing pov which he put in the ROR, came out in his apartment in London, cast a notice me not charm on himself and went to Diagon alley.

After getting into Gringots it took less then 5 minutes for a goblin to come in and start their lesson.

"Hello, mr. Peverell, my name is Bogrod and I will be your teacher for the economics class which, an you know, you will have every Saturday until we both feel you are ready.

First thing you have to know about economics in the magical world is that wizards are idiots! Without knowing that point by heart even if you are the best businessman to ever grace this world you are doomed to fail.

Now, you are probably wondering, "why is he saying it?" It's because it is true! Let me explain, Do you know that goblins are treated with contempt in the Wizarding world? That we are treated as magical creatures?

Think about all the goblin's wars we had with you, have you ever won them? No! After all who would give the losers control over the money industry? In fact every single war ended with a peace treaty where the goblin came on top. And if your history books say differently it's because as I said before- 'wizards are idiots'

Second thing you need to learn is always treat a goblin with respect as he control your money, and even if the goblin's honor won't let him steal your money, doing deals to get around it is all they would have to do. Just look at James Potter and learn from him, by the time this year school year is done, I believe 2/10 of his family's money would disappear and he won't even notice it unless he comes counting his coins

The lesson continued like that while Bogrod gave him basic rules for Wizarding economy, and by the end of the lesson Harry felt he learned a lot.

Next day

It was time for blacksmithing lessons and Harry was super excited. After all, he was about to learn to create magical artifacts!

"My name is Ragnok and I will teach you the magical art of blacksmithing.

As you probably know, just like Goblin don't do wand magic, wizards don't do blacksmithing magic. What you probably don't know is that goblin can do wand magic, it's just that it's beneath us, after all how can a wooden wand could ever compare to the creations of magical artifacts? And when I say magical artifacts I don't mean the lame creations of wizards with runes and enchanting charms, I mean real magical artifacts like the sword Gryffindor stole from us, a sword that would never work for anyone except the original creator and Godrick as it was intended.

Now lets begin, before any blacksmithing can be done we must talk about metallurgy and gemstones.

There are many different kinds of metals who could be used in blacksmithing, but only a few which could be used in magical one.

While iron, steel, titanium and all the other muggle used metals and might be stronger than other kinds of metals, the only four kinds of metals which can be used to create magical artifacts are bronze, silver, gold and platinum. In fact the reason the muggles consider those metals as precious is that before the statute of secrecy they could sell it to goblins at a high price, some time even gat a weapon out of it.

The exact same thing is with precious gems, those gems are the best materials for the creation of a deep magical core for the swords."

When the day ended Harry learned all he could about the magical properties of metals and gems and he new it won't be the end but he didn't care, after all, what is a little extra hard work?